Syria: UN advisers warn that crimes against humanity may have been committed

[UndertheOcean]

Source: UN News Centre

22 July 2011 – The United Nations special advisers on genocide prevention and the principle of responsibility to protect today voiced alarm at persistent reports of widespread and systematic human rights violations perpetrated by security forces in Syria, saying that crimes against humanity may have been committed.
Francis Deng, the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide and Edward Luck, the Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect, said that Syrian security forces have reportedly continued to kill civilians and make arbitrary arrests.

Serious violations of international human rights law are reported to have systematically occurred in the context of the attacks on civilians, they said in a joint statement to the media.

“Based on available information, the Special Advisers consider that the scale and gravity of the violations indicate a serious possibility that crimes against humanity may have been committed and continue to be committed in Syria,” said Mr. Deng and Mr. Luck.


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[rpannier]

1. Syria can just use the George Bush did it first defense

Or say, "We killed fewer people than the US and the UK did."

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. Well then I guess it's time to start bombing them, so US/NATO can commit even more

Need to show those people how this stuff is really done, like the Bush-Obama regime have in Iraq/Afghanistan and elsewhere.

[pampango]

3. Not gonna happen. Russia and China won't even allow the UN to condemn the repression.

Doing anything concrete about the repression isn't going to happen. The Syrian people are on their own, but they seem to know they are quite impressive in continuously escalating their protests despite the tanks and military abuses.

[No Elephants]

4. Someone's still worrying about crimes against humanity? How quaint, how quaint, how very quaint.